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Part I (Introduction - Part I)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Sellers, Bakari. My Vanishing Country. Amistad, New York, 2020.

• This book is written from the first person point of view and in a mix of past and present tenses.

• In the Introduction, Black, Country, and Proud, Sellers writes that he is from the Low Country in South Carolina, from the town of Denmark.

• Denmark is named for B.A. Denmark, a railroad businessman of the nineteenth century, but Sellers thinks of the literate and Black free carpenter from the same period named Denmark Vessey who staged a slave rebellion in 1822.

• Sellers likes to think of an alternative story where Denmark the town is named after Vessey.

• Denmark is a town that has had a long decline, and according to Sellers many residents now live in poverty.

• With the 1994 North American...

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